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Arts & Sciences has over 1,000 faculty and staff who utilize their diverse expertise in the pursuit of research breakthroughs, gaining a deeper understanding of the world's most pressing issues and serving as mentors of the next generation.
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Ana Babus
Economics
Aylin Bademsoy
Marlon M. Bailey
African and African-American StudiesWomen, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Sarah Baitzel
Anthropology
Thomas Bakupog
Chemistry
Kara Baldus-Mehrmann
Music
David Balota
Psychological & Brain Sciences
Darwin Baluran
Sudeshna Bandyopadhyay
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Mary Jo Bang
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Deanna Barch
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Joe Barcroft
Romance Languages and Literatures
Anne Baril
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Pamela Barmash
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Jonathan Barnes
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Cynthia Barounis
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Marisa Barragán-Peugnet
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Heather Barton
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Colin Bassett
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Margaret Guinn Batten
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John Baugh
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Barbara Baumgartner
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Anne Margaret Baxley
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Roger Beachy
Biology
Lois Beck
Anthropology
April Bednarski
Biology
Roya Beheshti Zavereh
Mathematics
Yehuda Ben-Shahar
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Deanna Benjamin
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Housni Bennis
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Nancy Berg
Jewish, Islamic, and Middle Eastern Studies
Marcus Berliant
Economics
Iver Bernstein
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Ruth Berson
College Writing Program
Timm Betz
Anna F. Bialek
John C. Danforth Center on Religion and Politics
Vladimir Birman
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John Bleeke
Chemistry
Joshua Blodgett
Biology
Kate Bloomquist
College Writing Program
Eliot Boden
Stefanie Boese
College Writing Program
Ryan Bogdan
Psychological & Brain Sciences
Ian Bogost
Film and Media Studies
Michele Boldrin
Economics
Tim Bono
Psychological & Brain Sciences
Daniel Bornstein
History
Arpita Bose
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Carlos Botero
Biology
John Bowen
Anthropology
Zachary Bowersox
Political Science
Christina L. Boyd
Pascal Boyer
Anthropology
Alexander S. Bradley
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Cindy Brantmeier
Global Studies
Todd Braver
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Rachel Brown
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J. Dillon Brown
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Eric Brown
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J. Andrew Brown
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William Bubelis
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James H. Buckley
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Francisco Buera
Economics
Julie Bugg
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Sebastian Buhts
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Patrick Burke
Music
Colin Burnett
Film and Media Studies
Daniel Butler
Political Science
Andrew C. Butler
Education
Paul Byrne
Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences
Recent Faculty Grants & Awards
Taylor Carlson, assistant professor of political science in Arts & Sciences, has been awarded a Social Science Research Council Social Data Research Fellowship to study the extent to which user-generated content (i.e. comments) on social media platforms distorts information reported by mainstream news outlets. The fellowship comes with a $50,000 award.
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